Once read thy own breast right, And thou hast done with fears.
MATTHEW ARNOLDTime may restore us in his course Goethe’s sage mind and Byron’s force: But where will Europe’s latter hour Again find Wordsworth’s healing power?
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Ah, love, let us be true To one another!
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For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion, of divine illusion. Poetry attaches its emotion to the idea; the idea is the fact. The strongest part of our religion today is its unconscious poetry.
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Time, so complain’d of, Who to no one man Shows partiality, Brings round to all men Some undimm’d hours.
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Culture being a pursuit of our total perfection by means of getting to know, on all the matters which most concern us, the best which has been thought and said in the world.
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It is a very great thing to be able to think as you like; but, after all, an important question remains: what you think.
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I do not believe today everything I believed yesterday I wonder will I believe tomorrow everything I believe today.
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It is – last stage of all When we are frozen up within, and quite The phantom of ourselves To hear the world applaud the hollow ghost Which blamed the living man
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France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme.
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For the creation of a masterwork of literature two powers must concur, the power of the man and the power of the moment, and the man is not enough without the moment.
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The eternal not ourselves that makes for righteousness.
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Weep bitterly over the dead, for he is worthy, and then comfort thyself; drive heaviness away: thou shall not do him good, but hurt thyself.
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Business could not make dull, nor passion wild; Who saw life steadily, and saw it whole.
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All the biblical miracles will at last disappear with the progress of science.
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Time may restore us in his course Goethe’s sage mind and Byron’s force: But where will Europe’s latter hour Again find Wordsworth’s healing power?
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Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
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